The future is looking bright for solar energy in Virginia.

Since 2022, gun violence has decreased across the state. It’s close to the national average even as gun-related homicide rates in several cities remain “relatively high.”

A Portsmouth nonprofit built a program to aid victims of gun violence in Hampton Roads. It was one of several anti-crime projects in Virginia to lose its funding to the Trump administration’s cuts this year.

The ongoing experiences educators are having with AI may help inform Virginia legislators as they head back to Richmond for the 2026 legislative session in mid-January.

On New Year’s Day, parking is free at all Virginia State Park locations, and there are there are nearly 90 guided hikes and other events planned across the Commonwealth.

On January first, the Dean of UVA’s graduate school of business will be sworn in as the 10th president of the university, but some say Scott Beardsley's tenure will not last long.

A panel of three judges heard arguments on Monday in a challenge to the eligibility of a newly-elected school board member to hold public office in Shenandoah County. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.

The highest-profile Virginia Republican hoping to take on incumbent Senator Mark Warner is out of the race.

Tom Schultz, chief of the U.S. Forest Service, said the Virginia Creeper Trail rebuild is part of a massive recovery effort of national lands throughout Appalachia after Helene — with a price tag of $6 billion.

The Federal Communications Commission voted this fall to hike rate caps for phone and video calls that incarcerated people and their families can be charged. It rescinded a reform implemented under the Biden administration.While Virginia’s rates sit below those limits, prison reform advocates say communications costs are still too high.